Metula (gastropod)

Metula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Metula
Temporal range: Paleocene - Recent
Fossil shell of Metula mitraeformis from Pliocene of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Buccinidae
Genus:
Metula

Type species
Metula metula Hinds, R.B., 1844
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Acamptochetus Cossmann, 1901
  • Agassitula Olsson & Bayer, 1972
  • Antemetula Rehder, 1943
  • Antimitra Iredale, 1917
  • Colubrarina Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
  • Floritula Olsson & Bayer, 1972
  • Minitula Olsson & Bayer, 1972

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 61.7 to 0.781 million years ago).[2]

Species

Species in the genus Metula include:

  • Metula aegrota (Reeve, 1845)
  • Metula africana Bouchet, 1988
  • Metula agassizi Clench & Aguayo, 1941
  • Metula amosi Vanatta, 1913
  • Metula andamanica Smith, 1906
  • Metula angioyorum Parth, 1992
  • Metula bozzettii Parth, 1990
  • Metula crosnieri Bouchet, 1988
  • Metula cumingi A. Adams, 1853
  • Metula daphnelloides Melville & Standen, 1903
  • Metula ellena Olsson & Bayer, 1972
  • Metula elongata Dall, 1907
  • Metula frausseni Bozzetti, 1995
  • Metula gigliottii Coltro, 2005
  • Metula guppyi Olsson & Bayer, 1972
  • Metula kilburni Parth, 1994
  • Metula lintea Guppy, 1882
  • Metula metula (Hinds, 1844)
  • Metula metulina (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
  • Metula minor Olsson & Bayer, 1972
  • Metula olssoni Woodring, 1928
  • Metula optima Olsson & Bayer, 1972
  • Metula parthi Bondarev, 1997
  • Metula reticularis Traub, 1938
  • Metula tumida Xiutong & Suping, 2000
Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2010). Metula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225377 on 1 April 2011
  2. Fossilworks
  • Beu A.G. & Maxwell P.A. (1987) A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 54:1-140
  • H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
  • Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates 45: 263-270. NIZT 682

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